(25428) Lakhanpal Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Nitish Lakhanpal (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the University High School, Irvine, California.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lakhanpal is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lakhanpal is 2.35 au from the Sun and 2.26 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25428 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VM172 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.36 km (#16,507 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.317 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.25 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.91 – 2.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.144 |
| Inclination | 2.80° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.902 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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